15 dollars for one set of armor?

I'm trying to decide whether to use my complimentary coins on having a market on my ship, or waiting until they release a smuggler outfit that isn't garbage on the cartel market. Because I know when they do, it'll be 15 dollars or more.

True industrial diamonds aren't that rare relatively but decorative ones are rare enough. Though they can be made these days and didn't that give jewellers fits

Gold is valuable for its uses in non decorative stuff as well remember which also affects the price.

Indeed , gold was cheap enough in 1998 for it not to be "worth" mining and many gold exploration surveys were called off (most of which have been resumed in the last 6 years).

Although even then it was not cheap, and by the time you reach a finished product even less so.

Same with diamonds, although you can make industial diamonds to coat your hole cutter releatively inexpensively to produce a finished diamond on a pair of earings in nothing like the same thing.





Now to ignore the pettifogging.

What this all was orginally about was whether a Santa mount which is desinged ONCE and the is totally free to make is worth $18.00 because it is a "vanity item".

The justification that it is, was because a gold watch or a pair of diamond earrings are expensive, which they are because of material costs and production costs, not simply because the are "vanity items".

Where as a $18.00 Santa mount is effectively $17.99 (or more) pure profit.

As I have said, the cost would be fine IF it was Bind To Legacy....
That's a terrible choice and why I haven't spent money on the armor unlocks.

Compared to STO's $200 uniform, this isn't that bad haha.

200...?

According to the military that I used to work with, gold is expensive not because of how rare it is, but because the U.S. government buys it up and trades it to countries we have a debt with. It is one of the few currencies they accept as payment. This is why all these "cash for gold" businesses cropped up.

As far as the 15 dollar price tag on armor, it is plain stupid. If you buy it, you really need to learn the real value of a dollar. Even if you are rich, it is a very irresponsible use of money. Unfortunately when people feel like they have a surplus of funds, it becomes real easy to let go of it for frivolous things. Therefore Bioware gets away with it.

Even at $5.00, I would have worked pretty hard for 15 minutes for it at my job just to get pixels that really don't do anything but make my character pretty. What I do during that 40-50 hours a week seems way more important to me than a set of game armor, therefor no silly spending for me.

Maybe it shouldnt be a fair price. Maybe it should be laws preventing that kind of abuse.

One day maybe, when this kind of stuff will be on the debate of the general public audience, and not being a niche of only video gamers.

I think it is, or EvEs eye-patch.

For the quality of the produce $2.00 is probably "expensive", arguable free would even be.

Um.... actually... the reason gold and diamonds are so rare is not the cost of production.... it's vanity. It costs so much because humans (especially rich ones) care so much about what other think of them that they just have to have anything that they have been told is rare or hard to find. So the few people that have them make everyone else pay a crap-ton for them.

It's because the raw material is controlled a few greedy people taking advantage of human greed and vanity that they cost so much, not because of the cost of production.